Advertisement
HOWMICROWWEOVENSWORK
Microwave
ovens are safe. Microwave
energy
is not hot. It causes
food to
make
its own heat, and it's this heat that cooks the food.
Microwaves
are like TV
waves
or light waves.
You
can't see them, but you can
see what they do.
Microwaves
pass through
glass, paper
and plastic
without
heating
them so food
absorbs
the energy.
Micro-
waves
bounce
off metal
pans
so food does not absorb
the
energy.
Stirrer
Maanetron
Glass Shelf
Oven-Cavity
A magnetron
produces
microwaves.
The microwaves
move into the oven where
they are scattered
around
by
a stirrer (like a fan).
Microwaves
bounce
off
metal oven walls and are
absorbed
by food.
Microwaves
may not reach
the center
of a roast. The heat
around
the outside
is what
cooks the roast all the way
through.
This is one of the
reasons
for letting
some
foods (roasts, baked
pota-
toes] stand for a while after
cooking,
or for stirring some
foods during
the cooking
time.
Metal Bottom
The glass bottom
of your
microwave
oven lets micro-
waves
through.
Then they
bounce
off a metal floor,
back through
the glass bot-
tom and are absorbed
by the
food.
The microwaves
disturb
water molecules
in the food.
As the molecules
bounce
around
bumping
into each
other, heat is made,
like rub-
bing your hands together.
This is the heat that cooks.
B&LEVEL OVEN RACK
Use the Bi-Level Oven Rack to stack foods when cooking
in more than one
Container.
The rack can be turned
upside-down
to help fit taller containers
on the bottom
of the oven.
First Posltlon:
Use the rack only when heating
SPECIAL CAUTIONS
more than one container
of food.
Do not let a container
touch the top of the
oven.
l
Do not use with browning
dish.
l
Use only when cooking
foods in more than
one container.
Second
Position:
Turn rack upside-down
when using a taller container
on the bottom
of the oven.
l
Do not use in conventional
ovens or under
broiler.
l
Do not let food or container
touch the top of
the oven.
CLEANING
THE RACK
l
Do not store rack in the oven.
l
Wash by hand with a mild detergent.
l
Wash on the top rack of a dishwasher.
l
Do not use abrasive
scrubbers
or cleansers
21
Advertisement
